Title & Author:

Tributes to Pierre du Prey : architecture and the classical tradition, from Pliny to Posterity / edited by Matthew M. Reeve.

Publication:

Turnhout, Belgium : Harvey Miller / Brepols, [2014]
©2014

Description:

vii, 288 pages : illustrations, plans, portraits ; 29 cm

Series:

[Tributes ; HMTRIB 6]

Notes:
Series information from publisher's website (viewed November 9, 2018).
Includes bibliographical references.
Pierre du Prey : an appreciation / Matthew M Reeve, David McTavish and Peter Coffman -- The origins of the orders: unity in multiplicity / Mark Wilson Jones -- Some other literary villas of Roman antiquity besides Pliny's / Guy P.R. Métraux -- The Tempietto del Clitunno and San Salvatore near Spoleto: ancient Roman imperial columnar display in Medieval contexts / Judson J. Emerick -- Romanesque historiography and the Classical tradition / Eric Fernie -- Uses of the past: Charles V's Roman triumph and its legacy / John Beldon Scott -- Classicism in a Rococo world: steadfastness and compromise in late Colonial South America / Gauvin Alexander Bailey -- Girolamo Porro: engraver and publisher in Venice / Sally Hickson -- Acanthus leaves and ostrich feathers: Claude Perrault, tradition, and innovation in architectural language / Una Roman d'Elia -- Classical themes and creative variations from the sixteenth century: two unpublished drawings of palace façades related to Giulio Romano / David McTavish -- Two drawings by Giovanni Battista Montano in the Canadian Centre for Architecture / Janina Knight -- Ruins and restitution: eighteenth-century architects and antiquity in the Bay of Naples / John Pinto -- 'A Gothic Vatican of Greece and Rome': Horace Walpole, Strawberry Hill, and the narratives of Gothic / Matthew M. Reeve -- The Gibbsian tradition in Nova Scotia / Peter Coffman -- Thomas Baillairgé and Victor Bourgeau: architects, architectural practice, and the nineteenth-century French-Canadian Church in Quebec / Luc Noppen -- The Stadio dei Marmi in Rome: inventing a Classical stage for the colossal heroes of fascist Italy / Sebastian Schütze -- Mies Klassizismus : some notes / Phyllis Lambert -- Postlude: in prase of mentors / Pierre du Prey.

Summary:

"This volume is warmly dedicated to Pierre de la Ruffinière du Prey. It comprises sixteen essays by friends, colleagues, and students and a postlude by our dedicatee."-- Publisher's website.

ISBN:

9781909400122 (hardback)
1909400122 (hardback)

Subject:

Du Prey, Pierre de la Ruffinière Festschrift.
Architecture, Classical.
Architecture, Classical Influence.
Architecture, Ancient.
Architecture antique.
Architecture antique Influence.
Architektur
Architekturtheorie
Antike
Rezeption

Form/genre:

Festschrifiten.

Added entries:

Du Prey, Pierre de la Ruffinière, honouree.
Reeve, Matthew M., editor.
Tributes (Harvey Miller Publishers) ; 6.

Architecture and the classical tradition, from Pliny to Posterity

Holdings:

Location: Library main 293202
Call No.: BIB 237959
Status: Available